Challock

March 1999 – Tim Hills: Hasted’s History of Kent vol. VII (1798) recorded that there were no fewer than ‘six yew trees, of a remarkable large size’.
1936: Mee recorded ‘four old yews round the church, one a wreck and one still healthy after about 600 years’. 1982: Meredith noted 3 old or ancient trees, as well as ‘what appears to be a stump of a tree almost vanished’ and ‘decayed beyond recognition’.